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Steven Gortler — 19 Patents

Microsoft: 15 patents #2,633 of 40,388Top 7%
Waltham, MA: #114 of 1,656 inventorsTop 7%
Massachusetts: #6,113 of 88,656 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #229,345 of 4,157,543Top 6%
19 Patents All Time
Steven Gortler has been granted 19 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in December 2020. Steven Gortler ranks #229,345 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.5%). Patent records list Steven Gortler in Waltham, MA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2007.peak 51999: 1 patents19992000: 1 patents20002002: 1 patents20022005: 2 patents20052006: 3 patents20062007: 5 patents20072008: 1 patents20082009: 2 patents20092019: 1 patents20192020: 2 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–19 of 19 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10867452 System and methods for conversion of 2D assets into 3D graphical scenes Julie Dorsey, Leonard McMillan, Sydney Shea 2020-12-15
10529145 Touch gestures for navigation and interacting with content in a three-dimensional space Julie Dorsey, Leonard McMillan, Duligur Ibeling 2020-01-07
10318101 Gesture-based user interface and method for navigating in three-dimensional space Leonard McMillan, Julie Dorsey, Fangyang Shen 2019-06-11
7586488 Multi-chart geometry images Pedro Vieira Sander, Zoe J. Wood, John Michael Snyder, Hugues Hoppe 2009-09-08 $39,068,000
7573474 Systems and methods for optimizing geometric stretch of a parametrization scheme Hugues Hoppe, John Michael Snyder, Pedro Vieira Sander 2009-08-11 $34,426,000
7425954 Systems and methods for providing signal-specialized parametrization Hugues Hoppe, John Michael Snyder, Pedro Vieira Sander 2008-09-16 $46,220,000
7286138 Discontinuity edge overdraw Hugues Hoppe, John Michael Snyder, Pedro Vieira Sander 2007-10-23 $25,268,000
7265752 Multi-chart geometry images Pedro Vieira Sander, Zoe J. Wood, John Michael Snyder, Hugues Hoppe 2007-09-04 $26,539,000
7262769 Systems and methods for optimizing geometric stretch of a parametrization scheme Hugues Hoppe, John Michael Snyder, Pedro Vieira Sander 2007-08-28 $25,091,000
7224358 Systems and methods for optimizing geometric stretch of a parametrization scheme Hugues Hoppe, John Michael Snyder, Pedro Vieira Sander 2007-05-29 $37,759,000
7218322 Systems and methods for providing a fine to coarse look ahead in connection with parametrization metrics in a graphics system Hugues Hoppe, John Michael Snyder, Pedro Vieira Sander 2007-05-15 $40,171,000
7075534 Method and system for automatically generating factored approximations for arbitrary bidirectional reflectance distribution functions Forrester H. Cole 2006-07-11
7071936 Systems and methods for providing signal-specialized parametrization Hugues Hoppe, John Michael Snyder, Pedro Vieira Sander 2006-07-04
6982714 Systems and methods for providing a fine to coarse look ahead in connection with parametrization metrics in a graphics system Hugues Hoppe, John Michael Snyder, Pedro Vieira Sander 2006-01-03 $40,311,000
6919906 Discontinuity edge overdraw Hugues Hoppe, John Michael Snyder, Pedro Vieira Sander 2005-07-19 $64,017,000
6850233 Systems and methods for optimizing geometric stretch of a parametrization scheme Hugues Hoppe, John Michael Snyder, Pedro Vieira Sander 2005-02-01 $57,608,000
6466207 Real-time image rendering with layered depth images Li-wei He, Michael F. Cohen 2002-10-15 $130,592,000
6023523 Method and system for digital plenoptic imaging Michael F. Cohen, Richard Szeliski 2000-02-08 $675,106,000
6009188 Method and system for digital plenoptic imaging Michael F. Cohen, Radek Grzeszczuk, Richard Szeliski 1999-12-28 $310,134,000